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ng; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

Reduced in strength; thin; weak. -- Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.

One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.

tain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.

A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.

A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.

Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

a). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

se; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to Ant: dilute. Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. Arbuthnot.

That which dilutes.

The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted. Arbuthnot.

A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

attery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

nto a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

liar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods. -- Gastric remittent fever (Med.), a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.…

An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with hæmatin to form hæmoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of…